Thursday, April 14, 2011

Lowbrow Panhead: Dual Amal Carb Setup

Dual Amal carburetors were a factory option from Harley-Davidson on Panheads, and I was lucky to secure this neat OEM manifold and carb setup for my '59 Pan. Now that I am done screwing around and a bunch of dudes are about to email me to correct me, check out this rad custom-made dual 930 concentric Amal carb setup on my Pan! Thanks goes to Nicholas at Trumpnut Cycle Parts for the manifold, he had made some for Shovelheads and Ironhead Sportsters, among others, and I contacted him about this and he knocked it out for me.

Nicholas used a an S&S Cycles Super E manifold that I had and shortened it and used that as the basis for the Amal manifold, which he made and flow tested to get good velocity and ensure it not only looks cool but runs strong as well. The starting sequence will be a bit different without an enricher, tickle the carbs like crazy and kick it fast as hell, no lazy kicks allowed. Should be interesting to fire it up (next week??)...

5 comments:

My immediate reaction was "Why would you put Amal's on an HD?" Seeing as how you probably already have new Amal's sitting on the shelf it makes perfect sense. Looks pretty cool too. I never knew Amal's were an option.

It ends up being sort of another variation on the way Mikuni's rub Triumph purists the wrong way, only in a more appropriate and cooler way. I approve!

Haha, the answer to your question 'Why would you put Amal's on an HD?" is 'because I can!'. It is fun to do something different, I am sure it will conjure up plenty of questions from people when it's on the road.. I will just bullshit em and tell them that they were stock.